Reviews the colorful history and lore of Colorado's two-mile-high Teller County, nestled in the shadow of America's most famous mountain. Formerly the home of vegetable farms at 10,000 feet above sea level, the Cripple Creek gold rush, the only bullfight ever held in the United States, and 50,000 hardy souls, the area now offers tourists the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument and several ghost towns.